Mets Announce Rotation – Santana Named Opening Day Starter

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   MetsFan4Decades

   4/1/2012-10:55am at 10:55 am (UTC -4)

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   Works for me.

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   kingman 26

   4/1/2012-11:08am at 11:08 am (UTC -4)

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   Exactly as it should be.

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   Stickguy

   4/1/2012-12:34pm at 12:34 pm (UTC -4)

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   only quibble would be putting Pelf 5th, but that would have just been for spite!

   If Santana can really stay on the field most of the year, the rotation should be somewhere in that solid to respectable range (keep them in games, etc.).

   I have seen a lot worse.

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      NJstuckinTX

      4/1/2012-1:52pm at 1:52 pm (UTC -4)

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      Quibble me this…

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   Stickguy

   4/1/2012-2:55pm at 2:55 pm (UTC -4)

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   off topic to this thread, but Bay looks completely shot. he looks like he is just up there swinging wildly at random pitches no where near the strike zone. I do not think the Bay experiment is going to last long this season.

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      kingman 26

      4/1/2012-3:56pm at 3:56 pm (UTC -4)

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      Bay looks precisely as he has looked since day one as a Met—as a totally different player from his 2009 year in Boston.

      I still say he is a prime example of a guy who MAY have been a major PED user, and quit using the day he signed his last massive contract.

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         Stickguy

         4/1/2012-5:15pm at 5:15 pm (UTC -4)

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         I don’t really see it in this case (not saying it isn’t true, just that the circumstances don’t lead me that way).

         If he came to the Mets all slimmed up, and hitting a lot of warning track drives, then maybe. But he looks thw same, and just seems to have totally forgotten how to hit. Or his eyesight is gone, but how exactly would PEDs keep him from being horribly fooled by every off speed or breaking pitch, so that he flails at pitches 3 feet off the plate?

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            gategem

            4/1/2012-5:38pm at 5:38 pm (UTC -4)

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            A reduction in bat speed could very well cause him to initiate his swing earlier to compensate which makes him very venerable to off-speed pitches.

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               Stickguy

               4/1/2012-5:57pm at 5:57 pm (UTC -4)

               would going off hgh actually cause him to lose bat speed tough?

               I think he just got old and lost a little bit (eyesight, reflexes,bat speed, etc.). doesn’t take much to go from hitter to guesser, even without artificial help.

               anyway, I have a strong feeling that he will be gone by 7/1 this year. Just a hunch that he will be so bad they will ditch him. And maybe replaced by a Kirk/Legaras platoon. All depends on how the 3 guys are doing.

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               MetsFan4Decades

               4/1/2012-6:02pm at 6:02 pm (UTC -4)

               I don’t think the drop off was due to him no longer using, but what do I know?

               I do know it’s been painful to watch and not only because Bay appears to be a nice guy and is clearly baffled.

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   gategem

   4/1/2012-5:08pm at 5:08 pm (UTC -4)

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   The named rotation is no surprise and is somewhere between mediocre to solid. However, they will suffer pitching with the Mets defense behind them.